Reading Applications Developer Contracts

This section looks at the demand for the Applications Developer role in IT contracts within the Reading region compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Applications Developer in their job title over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Alderley Edge Avon Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bradford Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Cambridgeshire Chelmsford Cheshire Chippenham City of London Cleckheaton Corby County Antrim Coventry Derby Derbyshire Docklands, London Dorset Dundee East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Essex Farnborough Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Gosport Hampshire Harrogate Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Ipswich Kent Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London Loughborough Luton Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Nantwich Newbury Newcastle Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Portsmouth Reading Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Staffordshire Stevenage Stoke-on-Trent Suffolk Surrey Sussex Swansea Telford Tyne and Wear UK Upminster Wales Warrington Warwickshire West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wiltshire Winchester Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	70	66
Rank change on same period last year	-4
Matching contract IT job ads	2	7
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.003 %	0.007 %
As % of the category below	0.215 %	0.716 %
Daily rates quoted	1	0
Average minimum daily rate	£350	-
Average daily rate	£400	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£450	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£331	£342
% change on same period last year	-3.06 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	1
Average minimum hourly rate	£30.00	£20.00
Average hourly rate	£30.00	£20.00
% change on same period last year	+50.00 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£30.00	£20.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£31.63	£35.63
% change on same period last year	-11.20 %
Job Titles Reading
Matching contract IT job ads	930	977
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	1.240 %	0.988 %
Daily rates quoted	274	321
Average minimum daily rate	£326	£332
Average daily rate	£346	£355
% change on same period last year	-2.70 %
Average maximum daily rate	£366	£379
UK excluding London average daily rate	£357	£353
% change on same period last year	+1.09 %
Hourly rates quoted	79	100
Average minimum hourly rate	£20.92	£27.82
Average hourly rate	£22.47	£29.13
% change on same period last year	-22.86 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£24.02	£30.44
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.51	£25.99
% change on same period last year	-9.54 %
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We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Applications Developer across the Reading region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

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Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Applications Developer across the Reading region.

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Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Applications Developer across the Reading region.

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Reading region that cited Applications Developer in their job title mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled with Applications Developer in their job title.

1 4 (57.14 %) C# 1 4 (57.14 %) SQL 2 3 (42.86 %) HTML 2 3 (42.86 %) Java 2 3 (42.86 %) .NET 2 3 (42.86 %) Oracle 2 3 (42.86 %) SQL Server 2 3 (42.86 %) XML 3 2 (28.57 %) Windows 3 2 (28.57 %) Linux 3 2 (28.57 %) CSS 3 2 (28.57 %) Microsoft 3 2 (28.57 %) ASP 3 2 (28.57 %) C 3 2 (28.57 %) VBA

3 2 (28.57 %) JavaScript 3 2 (28.57 %) Perl 3 2 (28.57 %) PHP 3 2 (28.57 %) C++ 3 2 (28.57 %) PostgreSQL 3 2 (28.57 %) MySQL 4 1 (14.29 %) VB6 4 1 (14.29 %) Spring 4 1 (14.29 %) StarTeam 4 1 (14.29 %) Web Development 4 1 (14.29 %) Use Case 4 1 (14.29 %) Release Management 4 1 (14.29 %) User Acceptance Testing 4 1 (14.29 %) Data Migration 4 1 (14.29 %) SC Cleared

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Reading region that cited Applications Developer in their job title mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled with Applications Developer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 3 (42.86 %) HTML 1 3 (42.86 %) .NET 1 3 (42.86 %) XML 2 2 (28.57 %) ASP 2 2 (28.57 %) CSS 3 1 (14.29 %) JSP 3 1 (14.29 %) Struts 3 1 (14.29 %) WebServices 3 1 (14.29 %) ASP.NET 3 1 (14.29 %) EJB 3 1 (14.29 %) J2EE 3 1 (14.29 %) LAMP 3 1 (14.29 %) Hibernate 3 1 (14.29 %) Spring	Application Platforms 1 1 (14.29 %) MS Exchange
Applications 1 1 (14.29 %) MS Excel	Business Applications 1 1 (14.29 %) Great Plains
Database & Business Intelligence 1 3 (42.86 %) SQL Server 2 2 (28.57 %) PostgreSQL 2 2 (28.57 %) MySQL	Development Applications 1 1 (14.29 %) PVCS 1 1 (14.29 %) StarTeam
General 1 1 (14.29 %) Legal	Operating Systems 1 2 (28.57 %) Windows 1 2 (28.57 %) Linux 2 1 (14.29 %) Windows NT 2 1 (14.29 %) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies 1 1 (14.29 %) OOP 1 1 (14.29 %) OO 1 1 (14.29 %) CRM 1 1 (14.29 %) Service Management 1 1 (14.29 %) Workflow 1 1 (14.29 %) Migration 1 1 (14.29 %) Web Development 1 1 (14.29 %) Use Case 1 1 (14.29 %) Release Management 1 1 (14.29 %) User Acceptance Testing 1 1 (14.29 %) Data Migration 1 1 (14.29 %) SC Cleared 1 1 (14.29 %) Security Cleared	Programming Languages 1 4 (57.14 %) C# 1 4 (57.14 %) SQL 2 3 (42.86 %) Java 3 2 (28.57 %) JavaScript 3 2 (28.57 %) Perl 3 2 (28.57 %) PHP 3 2 (28.57 %) C++ 3 2 (28.57 %) VBA 3 2 (28.57 %) C 4 1 (14.29 %) VB6 4 1 (14.29 %) VBScript 4 1 (14.29 %) VB
System Software 1 1 (14.29 %) Active Directory	Vendors 1 3 (42.86 %) Oracle 2 2 (28.57 %) Microsoft 3 1 (14.29 %) Borland 3 1 (14.29 %) TIBCO